Raga: Yaman (Gat In Drut Teental)

Yaman is a studio album centered on the North Indian classical raga Yaman, released on September 1, 2011, under the Aimrec label. The recording features sitarist Hidayat Khan as the primary artist alongside tabla accompanist Enayet Hossain. The album adopts a traditional instrumental format, emphasizing the khayal and gat structures characteristic of Hindustani classical music.

The third track, titled Raga: Yaman (Gat In Drut Teental), spans 10 minutes and exemplifies the drut (fast) tempo variation of Teental, a 16-beat rhythmic cycle. Khan performs the sitar composition, while Hossain provides tabla support with intricate layakari and relational phrasing. The track adheres to the gat-tod style, where the melodic theme undergoes improvisational expansion within the raga’s grammatical framework.

The album’s production prioritizes acoustic fidelity, capturing the resonant overtones of the sitar and the percussive clarity of the tabla. Aimrec distributed the release in CD format, targeting audiences of Indian classical music. Additional contextual details about the recording sessions, alternate takes, or live iterations remain undocumented in available sources. The liner notes, if included, are not publicly summarized.

Khan’s interpretation of Yaman aligns with the Vilambit-Drut tradition, where slower expository alaap sections precede the rhythmic gat. Hossain’s accompaniment integrates the Peshkar and Qaida patterns of the Delhi and Ajrada gharanas, though specific stylistic attributions are not explicitly credited in the release metadata. The album serves as a recorded instance of the artist’s concert repertoire from the early 2010s.